The invention relates to an apparatus for storage and dispensing of bank notes, preferably having a device connected in series to verify genuineness of bank notes inserted. To provide the apparatus which is characterized by a simple and therefore economical performance construction with the required security of pay-out, a compartment module having components lying next to each other, separated from each other by partitions and opened at their end sides is provided which is guided moveably by a controlled drive. To store the bank notes, a slider travelable to and fro by a controlled drive is guided in the housing in the transverse middle plane of the bank note supplied in each case, this slider pushing the bank notes while folding them in the middle in a loop-like manner into a compartment of the compartment module traveling into the middle plane.
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1. An apparatus for storage and dispensing of bank notes, comprising, a compartment module having several compartments arranged adjacent to one another to move as a unit, each said compartment structured and arranged to receive a single note, partitions arranged to separate each said compartment from an adjacent compartment, each said compartment open at opposite ends thereof between said respective partitions, said compartment module together with said individual compartments thereof forming a magazine, guides upon which said compartment module is movably and reciprocatingly arranged in a direction substantially perpendicular to both opposite open ends of each said compartment, a slider reciprocatingly movable and arranged for storage of the bank notes within said magazine, said magazine and slider positioned with respect to one another with said slider structured and arranged to push each said bank note positioned in front of an opening of a respective compartment of said magazine into said respective compartment and fold said respective bank note in a substantially transverse middle plane thereof, with said respective compartment positioned substantially adjacent said transverse middle plane of said respective bank note, such that each said bank note is inserted into said respective compartment in folded condition along said substantially transverse middle plane thereof and retained therein in flat and folded condition, and for dispensing of a respective bank note, said magazine with said compartment storing the same is movable to a position to dispense the same from the respective opposite end opening of said compartment, wherein said compartment module is reciprocatingly arranged upon said guides to move in a direction substantially normal to said reciprocatingly movable direction of said slider, with said slider structured and arranged to fold and insert said respective bank note into said compartment in an insertion end of said two opposite ends of each said compartment, and additionally comprising a gripper structured and arranged to grip and extract said respective bank notes from said respective compartments from the opposite extraction end of each said compartment, over a loop in a region of a fold crease in the respective bank note.
2. An apparatus in accordance with claim 1 , additionally comprising a device connected in series with said compartment module for verification of the inserted bank notes, a conveying device structured and arranged to position flat bank notes in front of said insertion side, opening of the respective compartment of the compartment module in position to be folded by said slider into said respective compartment, and a dispensing device structured and arranged to receive a respective bank note in front of the opposite opening of said respective compartment when said compartment is moveably positioned adjacent the same.
3. An apparatus in accordance with claim 2 , wherein said dispensing device comprises an extraction roller pair.
4. An apparatus in accordance with claim 3 , additionally comprising a transportation device structured and arranged after said extraction roller pair, and comprising driven belts under which the folded bank notes are transported.
5. An apparatus in accordance with claim 1 , wherein dispensing and inserting the bank notes takes place through the same slot.
6. An apparatus in accordance with claim 1 , wherein dispensing of the bank notes takes place at a dispensing slot located below a separate insertion slot for the bank notes into said apparatus.
7. An apparatus in accordance with claim 1 , wherein dispensing of the bank notes takes place at a pay-out cup.
8. An apparatus in accordance with claim 2 , wherein drives are provided for the compartment module, the slider and the dispensing device, and additionally comprising a micro-computer structured and arranged to control all said drives.
9. An apparatus in accordance with claim 1 , additionally comprising a bank note tester structured and arranged to be coupled along an intake slot for the bank notes in said apparatus.
10. An apparatus in accordance with claim 1 , in which said guides are in the form of rods upon which said compartment module is situated to be moveably guided.
11. An apparatus in accordance with claim 1 , wherein said slider is structured and arranged to contact said respective bank note at the substantially transverse middle plane thereof and push said respective bank note into said respective compartment.
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May 22, 2000
May 20, 2003
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